[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c7.s2.23 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.s2.23 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.s2.23 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.s2.23) He has discussed five \*vākya-doṣas\* (blemishes of a sentence) — \*nyūna\* (laconic), \*adhika\* (having excess of words, etc.), \*anarthaka\* (senseless), \*apārthaka\* (misleading) and \*viruddha\* (contradictory). The reversal of these yields five \*vākyaprasaṁśās\* — \*anyūna\*, \*anadhika\*, \*arthavat\*, \*anapārthaka\* and \*avirudddha\*. Caraka perhaps is indebted to Sulabhā’s categorizations of good and bad conversations as discussed in \*Mahābhārata\*. - [Previous: c7.s2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.s2.22) - [Next: c7.s2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.s2.24) - [Up: c7.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.s2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.s2.23) · Pramāṇa